On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:31:56PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> tags 279927 - wontfix
> thanks
>
> On Tuesday 08 February 2005 18:31, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Frans Pop tagged this bug "wontfix" on 8 November 2004, saying:
> > We will keep this patch until after RC2 and see if it can still be
> > applied then.
> >
> > As I understand it, the RC2 release has long since happened, but as far
> > as I can tell no one looked back into this, probably assuming the
> > "wontfix" tag implied "forever".
>
> That is correct, but at that time RC2 was to be the final build for Sarge,
> which, as I am sure you know, it turned out it wasn't.
Yes.
> It has always looked to me as if RC3 would happen "fairly soon"; there
> never was a clear date (AFAIK there still isn't).
All right.
> In hindsight the patch could probably have been applied after RC2. IMHO
> however, at any time since RC2, my arguments for not applying it were and
> still are valid.
I don't understand. It could probably have been applied, but also probably
shouldn't have been?
> > Are there any plans to review this patch?
>
> I have just tested how the patch applies against the current version of
> the manual and I get 100 hunks that fail (4 hunks have already been
> fixed). The content of the patch has not yet really been reviewed.
Sigh.
> > Is there anything I can do to help expedite its review?
>
> Well, I don't know how you created the patch. If that was done largely
> automated, it would be good if you could create a new patch after RC3.
> If not, I will review the patch then.
It was done almost entirely by hand.
> > 2) Use a mechanism other than "tagging wontfix" to mean "postponed".
> > I'm pretty sure that's not what the "wontfix" tag means.]
If I am the only person who cares to see the problems I fixed addressed,
then please feel free to close this bug (and re-mark it "wontfix"). I had
thought I was being helpful, but if that's not the case, there's not much
sense cluttering the BTS with this report.
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